Laundry-net receptacle



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' F. R. ROBISON LAUNDRY NET RECEPTACLE Filed April ll, 1921 INVENTOR. fn/kzfww l A TTORNEYS.

Patented June l2, 1923.

FRANKLIN R. ROBISON, 0F GLOVERSVILLE, YOK.

LAUNDRY-NET RECPTAGLE.

Application filed April 11, 1921. Serial No. 460,378.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN R. RoBisoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Gloversville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented new and useful `Improvements in Laundry-Net Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a receptacle for storing and sorting laundry nets. I-leretofore fabric laundry nets, which are utilized in laundries to wrap or bundle articles of a given customer preparatory to placing them in the washers, have after use been tossed iiidiscriminately into piles upon a table or the floor, all sizes and colors being thrown into the same pile. The nets after use are wet and when so piled have no chance to dry and thereby rapidly deteriorate, and, all sizes of nets being thrown together, the operator wastes time and energy in picking over the nets in a pile to extract a net of the desired size and color.

The objects of the invention are to provide a receptacle of the character described in which the nets may be stored so as to-be readily accessible to the Operator at all times, and which will allow the nets to dry therein and protect them against loss or .injury; to provide such a receptacle having separate compartments for the nets of various sizes and colors, whereby a net of a given size and color can be quickly obtained with a minimum expenditure of time and labor; to provide a receptacle of this character having separate receiving and discharging openings, the compartments being constructed with restricted discharge openings to allow the withdrawal of only a single net at a time; to provide a laundry net receptacle through which a constant circulation of air is obtained so as to dry the nets stored therein to prevent deterioration thereof to provide such a receptacle having an enlarged receiving opening at the top thereof, and a restricted discharge opening at the bottom thereof, the nets descending by action of gravity from said receiving opening to the discharge opening in substantially the order in which they were thrown into the receiving opening, and only one of the nets being presented at the discharge opening at one time; and to obtain other results and advantages as may be brought out by the following description. i

Referring to the accompanying drawing,

above-named sizes. rllhe embodiment of my V invention shown in the drawing comprises a bottom or base 1 which may be formed of any suitable material such as wood or metal, and two end pieces 2 which are vertically ymounted at opposite ends of said bottom l inspaced and substantially parallel relation.

Said end pieces 2 are connected at their top by a top strip 3, the side edges of the ends 2 inclining downwardly in opposite directions as at 4- and then converging inwardly" and downwardly as at 5 to a point slightly i spaced. from the bottom l, after which the sides oi the ends diverge outwardly as at 6. A plurality of partitions '7 similar in construction to the end pieces 2 are arranged between the said ends in spaced and substantially parallel relation, the said partitions being so spaced as to form three Aseries of different sized compartments 8 therebetween, each group of compartments comprising a compartment to receive the size l2 nets, another compartment to receive the size 8 nets and another compartment to receive the size 6 nets, the various groups being adapted to receive respectively the light, dark and black colored nets.

The sides of the receptacle are preferably i of skeleton or open-work construction whereby a thorough circulation of air is obtained through the receptacle, and in the present instance I have shown the downwardly converging portions 5 vof the ends 2 connected by strips of wire screen 9, the said screen extending from the lower ends of the inclined portions 4t of the ends and partitions 7 to the inner ends` of the ,outwardly diverging yportions 6 at the bottom or' thereceptacle, the said screen being secured to the ends 2 `and partitions 7 in any suitableimanner as by the attaching strips 4bottom 'o'f the lreceptacle.

10 which are tacked 'or otherwise secured to the said ends and partitions. It will thus be seen that the compartments 8 are open at their upper ends between the sides- 9 and the top strip 3 ofthe receptacle at both sides of the receptacle.

Doors 11 are hingedly connected as at 12 to the lower ends ofthe sides 9 of the receptacle and are adapted to swing outwardly and upwardly to permit access to the-compartments 8 at the bottom thereof, said :doors `extending substantially half the length jof :the outwardly diverging portions 6, strips 13 being secured *to the -ends 2 and partitions 7 at the bottom thereof and eX- tending upwardly to within a short 'distance of theflowerfed'ges lof the ldoors 11 to provide a :space 14; between each of the Adoors and the strips 13..for the insertion of the fingers of the operator to open ythe door and also for the circulation of `air upwardly through the receptacle.

Furthermore, these doors frictionally engage any net or nets which tend to be inadvertently dragged 'out with a -net being .positively withdrawn, and thus 'obstruct the inadvertent withdrawal of more than desired. y

In the use ofthe receptacle it is placed -up onthe sorting table atwhich the articles tov be laundered are sorted and wrapped in the nets, one operator being stationed at each side of the table in convenient position to throw nets into the open upper .ends ofthe compartment y8 and extract vnets from the lower ends thereof. As the nets are removed from the bundles of articles, they are 4thrown bythe operator or sorter into the compartment Q8 corresponding to the color andA size of the net, and the nets in the receptacle fall by gravity Itoward the vbottom thereof. "The downwardly converging sides of the receptacle provide restricted discharge openings 15` at the points of intersection between the outwardly diverging portions at the bottom of the receptacle andthe lower edges ofthe sides 9 'thereof as 'clearly shown in Figure 2 of the drawing. The discharge'openings l15 are only sufciently large to allow one or two laundry nets to pass l'through the same at one time, and in order to remove a 1laundry net of a desired color and size the operator opens 'the door 11 at hisside rof the receptacle and pulls Athe lowermost net outwardly from the y The uppermost nets vthen gradually 'fall downwardly, and it will be seen 'that they will be presented aty the discharge openings `15 in substantially the same order in which they are 'thrown yinto the receiving openings at the upper ends of the compartments. The skeleton 'or open-workl sides `9 of vthe receptacle allow' a thorough and complete circulation of air through 'thesame so 'asto dry the nets while they are stored in the respective compartments, and the openings 14 at the bottom of the receptacle also allow the circulation of air upwardly through the same. l/Vith my laundry netreceptacle it will be seen that with reasonable care the laundry nets lcan ybe easily and quickly sorted so as to store the laundry nets of one color and size aflltogether ii-n one compartment, so that they are always conveniently accessible to'r the operator without kthe necessity-'of 'going .through a pile of nets ofall sizes and colors as :is now necessary. .The large :receiving openings for the compartments allow several of the nets to be thrown thereinto at one time Aand from both sides thereof, but the downwardly converging lsides 9 of the receptacle and the restricted dischargegpassages 115 guide the nets downwardly so "that only :one or l'two are presented fat lthe bottom :of the compartment at vone time. i

While 4I have shown and described =one ipossibleenibodiment of my invention, itwill be understood that this is for the .purpose lof illustrating the details thereof only, and

that many `modifications and changes `can be made in :the detail construction `of tthe 1nvention -by 'those skilled in the art without` slightly spaced from Ithe said bottom, A'sasid `side vedges fthen diverging dewnwardlyand outwardly to thelbottom, side pieces for fthe receptacle connected ybetween the said downwardly 'and inwardly converging `portions of said end pieces, 'the ltop y'of .the receptacle being open between said 'uppermost downwardly and outwardly diverging portions of the end plieces to form a receiving opening, and doors hingedly connected to the lower fedges of said side pieces to vclose lthe bottom fof said receptacle between 'the said lowermost downwardly vand outwardly diyverging portions ofthe end pieces.

2. A laundry net receptacle including upright end -pieces having their side edges inolined downwardly and'outwar'dly in oppositef'direc'tions for a short'dis'tance and then converging *downwardly and *inwardly 'to a point :spaced fromy the bottoms of said end pieces, the side 'edges then 'divergingdown- Alwardly and outwardly to said bottoms, side pieces `for the receptacle secured to the downwardly and inwardly converging'portions of the side edges of said end pieces,

the top of the receptacle being open between said uppermost downwardly and outwardly diverging portions of the end pieces to receive laundry nets and the bottom of the receptacle being open between the lower ends of the side pieces to discharge the nets, and doors upon said downwardly and outwardly diverging portions of the side edges of the end pieces adjacent their bottom, said doors being hinged at their upper edges and free at their lower edges to drag upon a net being withdrawn from between the lower ends of the side p ieces.

3. A laundry net receptacle including upright end pieces having their side edges converging downwardly and inwardly to a point spaoed from kthe bottom of said end pieces and then diverging downwardly and outwardly to said bottom, partitions be-l tween said end pieces similar and parallel thereto, and side pieces secured to the downwardly and inwardly converging portions of the side edges of said end pieces and partitions, the top of the receptacle having a receiving opening and the bottom a discharge opening between said side pieces.

FRANKLIN R. ROBISON. 

